All y’all have heard that people were told in the past, “Do not commit murder,” But now I tell you: if you are angry with your brother, you will be brought to trial. Matthew 5:21-26 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 5:1-12 (blessings) and then read Matthew...
This week marks the beginning of the Season of Lent and a new series based on some difficult teachings of Jesus on anger, adultery, retaliation, divorce, swearing, and love. But before you tune out, hang with us at least long enough to find out that our traditional...
They returned to their country by another road, since God had warned them in a dream not to go back to Herod. Matthew 2:12 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 2:12, 17:1-13, and this week’s Circuit Rider article titled Transformation. This week, let’s sit with the...
When we travel today, we rarely choose roads the old-fashioned way. Most of us enter a destination and are offered a route shaped by preferences we don’t even remember setting. Preferences like “fastest route” or “avoid tolls.” We tap “Go” and trust the voice guiding...
Over the past year, most of us have felt unmoored. Truth feels fragile. Anger feels constant. Power feels reckless. And too often, fear has been rewarded while compassion is dismissed as weakness. In moments like these, it’s tempting to retreat, to disengage, to...
During the season of Lent, our worship series, All Y’all, invites us to hear the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount the way his first followers heard them: not as a list of impossible individual expectations, but as a shared way of life meant to shape a...
What good is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? James 2:14-17 Questions for Life Groups Read James 2:14-17 and the article in this week’s Circuit Rider titled Responsibility. This week, let’s pay attention to who is being...
One of the defining struggles of our time is the widening gap between those with wealth and power and the vast majority who live without either. These inequities reach far beyond access to comfort or convenience. They shape whose voices are heard, whose bodies are...
A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for her children; she refuses to be comforted, for they are dead. Matthew 2:16-18 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 2:16-18 and the article in this week’s Circuit Rider titled Suffering....
“Who are the peacemakers in times of haunting wars?” Olena Tovianska asks from Irpin, Ukraine. She does not ask as a distant observer or a detached theologian, but as someone living inside the question. War is not an abstract concept where she lives; it constructs...